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Becci McKinley-Rowe is a managing director at Morgan Stanley and Head of the Global Equity Sales Team. She joined the firm in 2000 as an associate and became a managing director in 2009. Becci was recently included in a list of the 100 most influential women in European financial markets published by Financial News. Here Becci answers some key questions about Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley advises, originates and manages capital for institutions, corporates, governments and individuals.

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Pro bono is short for "pro bono publico", meaning "for the public good", and is a term used by law firms to refer to free legal advice and assistance they provide to individuals and groups who would not otherwise be able to access legal expertise. The kind of pro bono work that large commercial law firms typically do includes giving advice at community law centres, giving legal advice to charities, working on legal research, and providing free advocacy services.

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We've gathered together the commercial awareness questions you're most likely to be asked in an interview for a graduate role or an internship - and we've even given you ideas for answers to some of them too! Knowing what's being written about in the business press is a big part of commercial awareness, but it's important that you demonstrate you know there's more to it than that.

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Consulting is all about helping clients to optimise the performance of their organisation. Doing so could involve bringing them a fresh perspective on how they operate, working with them on a specific challenge, or contributing particular technical expertise or knowledge drawn from working with a number of different clients across an industry. Consulting is a great career for any graduate considering entering the commercial world.

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In many roles in investment banking, thinking about the business needs and aims of clients is a crucial part of the job. Buy-side firms, including asset managers and hedge funds, are some of the most important clients of investment banks. These organisations manage the long-term investment of multimillion-pound pools of money, predominantly made up of pension, insurance or savings funds. As such, many are significant users of the advisory and trading services that investment banks provide.

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The FTSE 100 recently gained a new female chief executive as EasyJet, headed by Carolyn McCall, ascended into the ranks of the UK's largest companies. However, her achievement mainly served to highlight how few of these elite companies are headed by women - McCall is one of just three female FTSE 100 chief executives, the others being Alison Cooper of Imperial Tobacco and Angela Ahrendts of Burberry.

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The fintech field offers some of the most challenging and cutting-edge graduate careers in technology. Expect plenty of client interaction, a fast pace and changing workloads. "We want people who want to use technology to solve the biggest problems in financial services," says Thomas Fortin, Managing Director at BlackRock. Students with a keen interest in technology without a finance background are very welcome.

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Who do large commercial law firms advise and assist as clients? Here's a guide to the broad range of organisations and individuals that turn to these firms for help with business issues and business opportunities. A corporate might hire a law firm to advise them when they want to purchase another company, sell their shares on a stock exchange, borrow money, resolve a dispute, or when they need help with a wide range of other kinds of transaction or issue.

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The ‘humanities versus science’ debate has long been deliberated in the media, particularly in more recent years, with government investment directed more towards the sciences than to the promotion of creative industries. While it’s easy to state the pros and cons of a degree at either end of the spectrum, it is perhaps significant to question the point of degree education in the first place. Is its sole purpose to lead students to a specific career, or is it more ambiguous than that?

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Put simply, top-down thinking means beginning with the most important issue or question. Getting to this is the real value of top-down thinking and results in keener insight, robust reasoning and clear communication. It's an approach found across the consulting industry, and one we like to use at PA Consulting. Developing great insight and having the ability to communicate it are, after all, the fundamentals of great consulting.

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